A look back at November 2020
Big news for local GM plant; waxy Trump won’t go; shoppers head to new Costco
November 2 — A bad start to the month — a weekend shooting in Beamsville left a Toronto man dead. Police called it a targeted incident.
November 3 — Niagara Region Public Health said a single cluster of people in their 20s appeared to be responsible for introducing COVID-19 into at least two Niagara long-termcare homes.
November 4 — In court, a Niagara man was banned for life from owning an animal. That was the verdict after a judge heard that the man had tied a dog to a railing, and it was choked by its own collar when it sought shelter from the bitter cold.
November 6 — Big economic news for Niagara: General Motors announced it will invest $109 million in its St. Catharines plant to get it ready to manufacture engines and transmissions for a new assembly line at the revived Oshawa plant.
November 9 — Headline: “Biden defeats Trump, says ‘time to heal’” — leaving us to wonder two months later, is this what healing looks like?
November 11 — Forty-five of 63 new COVID infections in Niagara occurred at a Lincoln flower farm, the public health department advises.
In Niagara Falls, staff at Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks say a wax figure of President Donald Trump will be kept on display. And across Niagara, scaledback Remembrance Day services are held.
November 13 — It was learned that more than half of Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority board members — all citizen appointees — stand to lose their places, over new provincial legislation that would require all members to be elected representatives of municipal governments.
November 14 — Big news for shoppers: The new Niagara Falls Costco store opened, with crowds lined up early on the first day.
November 17 — Like this year wasn’t already bad enough: Over the weekend, Niagara was socked with hurricane-force winds that reached a high of 141 km/h. That brought flooding and major storm damage. November 21 — Headline: “Santa will make physically distant appearances at Niagara malls.”
And this headline: “Deadly winter ahead, says Hirji.” November 30 — Under the headline “Niagara contact tracing pushed to its limits,” 151 new local COVID cases were reported from the past week. Eightythree people in Niagara had died from the coronavirus since the pandemic started.